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Chineke! Orchestra | Cape Town Opera | Enrique Mazzola

Name: Chineke! Orchestra | Cape Town Opera | Enrique Mazzola
Start: 2026-09-13T16:00:00
Location: KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Lucerne Festival

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Summertime, It Ain’t Necessarily So, I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’: in Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin strings together one hit after another. That can make it easy to forget that he did not compose a glittering Broadway musical but a groundbreaking serious opera — even if it sounds less like Wagner or Verdi and more like spirituals and jazz. It tackles unemployment and poverty, drugs and murder — and at its center is the tragic love story between the ...

Program

George Gershwin - Porgy and Bess

Participants

Enrique Mazzola

Conductor

Nonhlanhla Yende

Bess

Conroy Scott

Crown

Lukhanyo Moyake

Sportin' Life

Siyabulela Ntlale

Porgy

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1 dates (13 Sep - 13 Sep)

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4:00 pm

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Lucerne, Switzerland

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